Dynamical Lehmer's conjecture

Let fZ[z]f\in\mathbb{Z}[z] be a fixed monic polynomial of degree d2d\geq 2, and let mf(P)\mathrm{m}_f(P) denote the dynamical Mahler measure of a single-variable polynomial PZ[x]P\in\mathbb{Z}[x]. Dynamical Lehmer's conjecture. There is some δ=δf>0\delta=\delta_f>0 such that any single-variable polynomial PZ[x]P\in\mathbb{Z}[x] with mf(P)>0\mathrm{m}_f(P)>0 satisfies

mf(P)>δ.\mathrm{m}_f(P)>\delta.

This is the dynamical analogue of Lehmer's question about whether positive Mahler measures of integer polynomials are bounded away from zero. The source attributes this conjecture to Silverman; its resolution is not specified here.

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Primary source

Annie Carter, Matilde Lalín, Michelle Manes and Alison Beth Miller, “Dynamical Mahler Measure: A survey and some recent results”, arXiv:2204.04101 (2022).

Additional references

2 papers in this index state this conjecture (2021–2022). The statement above is taken from the most recent of them; the others are arXiv:2110.06496.

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